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  • 1985 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Jeffrey A. Kelly is affiliated with the Medical College of Wisconsin in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on HIV/AIDS and related public health concerns, with a significant body of work addressing infectious diseases, epidemiology, and social dimensions of health.

The main fields of study represented in their publications include:

  • Medicine

Key subfields contributing to their research profile are:

  • Infectious Diseases
  • Epidemiology
  • General Health Professions
  • Social Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science

Jeffrey A. Kelly's research topics cover a range of issues centered on HIV/AIDS and population health, including:

  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Sex work and related issues
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jeffrey A. Kelly include:

  • Yuri A. Amirkhanian
  • Katherine Quinn
  • Jennifer L. Walsh
  • Broderick Pearson
  • Wayne DiFranceisco

The scientist's work has been published repeatedly in these venues:

  • AIDS Care
  • Archives of Sexual Behavior
  • AIDS Education and Prevention
  • American Journal of Public Health
  • Vaccine

Selected recent papers include:

  • The Influence of Peers on PrEP Perceptions and Use Among Young Black Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Qualitative Examination (2020, Archives of Sexual Behavior)
  • Social network intervention to increase pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) awareness, interest, and use among African American men who have sex with men (2020, AIDS Care)
  • Intersectional Resilience Among Black Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men, Wisconsin and Ohio, 2019 (2022, American Journal of Public Health)
  • Factors associated with PrEP use in a community sample of African American men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women (TGW) in the United States Midwest (2024, AIDS Care)
  • Factors predicting primary and booster COVID-19 vaccination in a community sample of African American men and women in the United States Midwest (2024, Vaccine)

Jeffrey A. Kelly was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1985.

Best Publications

  • Patterns, correlates, and barriers to medication adherence among persons prescribed new treatments for HIV disease.

    Sheryl L. Catz;Jeffrey A. Kelly;Laura M. Bogart;Eric G. Benotsch

  • HIV risk behavior reduction following intervention with key opinion leaders of population: an experimental analysis.

    J A Kelly;J S St Lawrence;Y E Diaz;L Y Stevenson

  • Sexual sensation seeking: scale development and predicting AIDS-risk behavior among homosexually active men

    Seth C. Kalichman;Jennifer R. Johnson;Veral Adair;David Rompa

  • Community AIDS/HIV risk reduction: the effects of endorsements by popular people in three cities.

    J A Kelly;J S St Lawrence;L Y Stevenson;A C Hauth

  • Randomised, controlled, community-level HIV-prevention intervention for sexual-risk behaviour among homosexual men in US cities

    Jeffrey A Kelly;Debra A Murphy;Kathleen J Sikkema;Timothy L McAuliffe

  • Behavioral Intervention to Reduce AIDS Risk Activities.

    Jeffrey A. Kelly;Janet S. St. Lawrence;Harold V. Hood;Ted L. Brasfield

  • Popular opinion leaders and HIV prevention peer education: resolving discrepant findings, and implications for the development of effective community programmes.

    J. A. Kelly

  • Stigmatization of AIDS patients by physicians.

    J A Kelly;J S St Lawrence;S Smith;H V Hood

  • Psychological interventions to prevent HIV infection are urgently needed. New priorities for behavioral research in the second decade of AIDS.

    Jeffrey A. Kelly;Debra A. Murphy;Kathleen J. Sikkema;Seth C. Kalichman

  • Outcome of cognitive-behavioral and support group brief therapies for depressed, HIV-infected persons.

    J A Kelly;D A Murphy;G R Bahr;S C Kalichman

  • The NIMH multisite HIV prevention trial: Reducing HIV sexual risk behavior

    D. D. Celentano;C. Dilorio;T. Hartwell;J. Kelly

  • Factors associated with severity of depression and high-risk sexual behavior among persons diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.

    J A Kelly;D A Murphy;G R Bahr;J J Koob

  • Barriers to care among persons living with HIV/AIDS in urban and rural areas.

    T G Heckman;A M Somlai;J Peters;J Walker

  • The effects of HIV/AIDS intervention groups for high-risk women in urban clinics.

    Jeffrey A. Kelly;Debra A. Murphy;Carla D. Washington;Tracey S. Wilson

  • Outcomes of a randomized community-level HIV prevention intervention for women living in 18 low-income housing developments.

    Kathleen J. Sikkema;Jeffrey A. Kelly;Richard A. Winett;Laura J. Solomon

  • Reliability of retrospective assessments of sexual HIV risk behavior: a comparison of biweekly, three-month, and twelve-month self-reports.

    Kauth Mr;St Lawrence Js;Kelly Ja

  • Medical students' attitudes toward AIDS and homosexual patients.

    J A Kelly;J S St Lawrence;S Smith;H V Hood

  • PrEP Awareness, Familiarity, Comfort, and Prescribing Experience among US Primary Care Providers and HIV Specialists

    Andrew E. Petroll;Jennifer L. Walsh;Jill L. Owczarzak;Timothy L. McAuliffe

  • Sensation seeking as an explanation for the association between substance use and HIV-related risky sexual behavior

    Seth C. Kalichman;Timothy Heckman;Jeffrey A. Kelly

  • New formulations of sex roles and androgyny: a critical review.

    Jeffrey A. Kelly;Judith Worell

Frequent Co-Authors

Kathleen J. Sikkema
Kathleen J. Sikkema Columbia University
Janet S. St. Lawrence
Janet S. St. Lawrence Portland State University
Timothy G. Heckman
Timothy G. Heckman University of Georgia
Seth C. Kalichman
Seth C. Kalichman University of Connecticut
Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus
Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus University of California, Los Angeles
Debra A. Murphy
Debra A. Murphy University of California, Los Angeles
Cheryl Gore-Felton
Cheryl Gore-Felton Stanford University
Roger A. Roffman
Roger A. Roffman University of Washington
Steven D. Pinkerton
Steven D. Pinkerton Medical College of Wisconsin
Stephen F. Morin
Stephen F. Morin University of California, San Francisco

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